Judge refuses to lower bail for N.J. man whose father was killed by New Brunswick police

NEW BRUNSWICK — A judge today refused to lower bail for a man whose father was killed by New Brunswick police, so he could be released from jail to see his personal doctor about pain from an injury.

The bail for Barry Deloatch Jr. was kept at $50,000, without a 10 percent option, by Superior Court Judge Bradley Ferencz, who told Deloatch’s attorney, Patricia Bombelyn, to arrange for his doctor to see him at the Middlesex County jail in North Brunswick.

Deloatch, 24, is charged with unlawful possession of a .45-caliber handgun found in the car he and another man, Anthony McLaughlin, 21, were in as they fled from a shooting last week in New Brunswick.

At a hearing today, Middlesex County Assistant Prosecutor Keith Warburton told Ferencz that the shooting victim told police his friend got into a scuffle near Easton Avenue the night of Nov. 25. He said he got out of his car to help his friend and got involved in a verbal fight with Deloatch.

The victim, a 26-year-old man, said it was during his fight with Deloatch that McLaughlin shot him. Witnesses told police that after three shots were fired, Deloatch and McLaughlin ran to their car and took off.

Warburton said following a high-speed chase, the car crashed in Franklin Township on Route 27. The assistant prosecutor said ballistics tests matched the weapon found in the car with bullets taken from the victim and shells found at the scene.

He said the car belonged to Deloatch’s mother.

Deloatch's father, Barry Deloatch, was shot and killed by New Brunswick police Sept. 22 after he ran from two officers who stopped to question him and two other men. The attorney for one officer said Deloatch was hitting his client with a 2-foot-long board when the officer's partner shot him.